VANCOUVER — Prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit are in Clark County Superior Court this week, working to prevent the release of a convicted sex offender. The trial is expected to continue two and a half weeks.

Matthew Hopkins, 32, has been convicted of multiple sex offenses against children, dating back to 2001. In the interest of public safety, prosecutors in the Sexually Violent Predator Unit (SVP) are seeking his involuntary commitment to the state’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.

Ferguson defeated first travel ban, now seeks to block third

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced he has asked a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s latest version of his travel ban. This version would create an indefinite ban on travel by millions of people, including many with close ties to Washington.

Twice as many data breaches, six times the number of consumers impacted compared to previous year

OLYMPIA — Today Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson released his second annual Data Breach Report. His report finds that between July of 2016 and July of this year, data breaches affected nearly 3 million Washingtonians — more than six times the number impacted in the previous 12 months period.

Ferguson asks court in Seattle to declare new rules unlawful

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the Trump Administration’s new rules undermining women’s access to contraception.

The new rules would allow any company to deny coverage for contraceptive services to its female employees based on religious grounds. Additionally, certain types of organizations would also be able to deny this coverage on moral grounds. 

Ferguson’s goal is to visit every Rotary club in Washington state

RICHLAND — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is today speaking to the Richland Riverside Rotary, the 100th Rotary he has visited since taking office.

Ferguson has attended Rotary meetings in 25 of Washington’s 39 counties. After taking office in 2013, he committed to visiting all of the state’s 187 Rotary clubs. His first Rotary meeting as Attorney General was in Auburn.

Grant provides necessary funding to process an estimated 6,000 untested sexual assault kits and train law enforcement

OLYMPIA — The Attorney General’s Office won a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to inventory, test and help investigate the state’s backlog of sexual assault kits, which provide DNA evidence for sexual assault investigations.

UPDATE 1/5/18: New details on Purdue's conduct unsealed

City of Seattle, Ferguson jointly announce separate suits against OxyContin maker

OLYMPIA — Attorneys with the Wing Luke Civil Rights Unit are in federal court in New York today for the first hearing on Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s case seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“Allowing nearly 18,000 Dreamers to live and work in Washington makes our communities stronger and better places to live,” Ferguson said. “I will do everything in my power to ensure that they can continue to feel secure in what is, for many of them, the only home they have ever known.”

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today asked a federal court to allow the State of Washington to join a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.

“Thousands of transgender individuals serve or have served their country with honor and distinction,” Ferguson said. “Barring transgender individuals from serving based on anything other than their ability and conduct is wrong.”

Ferguson and team will be “serving up some justice”

OLYMPIA — This evening, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his softball team will go head-to-head with Governor Jay Inslee to reignite a decades-old rivalry between the offices. Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst will call the balls and strikes as umpire, and former Attorney General and Sen. Slade Gorton will throw out the first pitch.